Collins explicitly said he was engaged, writing, "When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her."

Kutz originally wrote that he "didn't come clean," and referred to the engagement as "Jason Collins' Other Hidden Secret."

Once the article went up, Kurtz was immediately mocked on Twitter.

At first he changed it to say "downplayed" instead of "didn't come clean." But since the entire article as based on a blatant falsehood, the Daily Beast decided to retract the whole thing this morning.